Gwen Clayton

Gwen Clayton is a translator working from German and Japanese into English. Although her mother was German, Gwen grew up in the UK and Switzerland, spending many happy holidays with her family in the Black Forest. Having formerly worked as a commercial lawyer, she now specialises in legal and literary translation and lives in London.

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In search of history at the Jewish Museum Vienna

The history of a Galician Torah crown

Each of the objects on display at the Jewish Museum Vienna was once intended for daily or ritual use in Jewish families and communities and is bound up with the fates of Jewish people. Together, the objects, each torn from their original context, provide a memorial to the Jews who were displaced and...

Introduction

Who are Young Kharkiv?

The interviews about the first months of the war in Kharkiv were conducted by the NGO "Young Kharkiv". But who is "Young Kharkiv" and what goals is the NGO pursuing with its oral history project?

Background article

Kharkiv–a Metropolis at War

The initiators of the interview project stayed in Kharkiv during the continuous attacks. Iryna Skyrda, a member of Young Kharkiv, talks about what was special about the city and how it changed as a result of the war.

Introduction

Oral History Interviews in War-time

Notes on Field Research

What does it mean to interview people when there is a war going on? Yevhenii Telukha describes the difficult circumstances under which the interviews were produced.